Network Security Essentials : Applications and Standards

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For one-semester courses on Network Security for computer science, engineering, and CIS majors. This text provides a practical, up-to-date, and comprehensive survey of network-based and Internet-based security applications and standards. It includes a concise section on the discipline of cryptographycovering algorithms and protocols underlying network security applications, encryption, hash functions, digital signatures, and key exchange.

William Stallings is a best-selling author and five-time winner of the annual Text and Academic Authors Association award for best computer science and engineering text. He has authored 17 titles and -- counting revised editions -- 43 books on various aspects of computer networking and computer architecture. Stallings is an independent consultant whose clients have included computer and networking manufacturers and customers, software development firms, and leading-edge government research institutions. He holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in computer science and a B.S. from Notre Dame in electrical engineering